A senior Uefa official was stripped of his duties last night after failing to
act on the referee’s instructions in the Yaya Touré race row. Uefa has
ordered the partial closure of CSKA Moscow’s Khimki Arena for their next
Champions League home match after Touré, the Manchester City midfielder, was
racially abused during his team’s 2-1 win in the Russian capital last
Wednesday.

In a separate move, the Uefa officer in charge of football operations at the
stadium was relieved of his duties for the rest of the season after an
internal investigation by the governing body found he had